{"id":102219,"date":"2021-06-27T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102219"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T21:20:17","slug":"points-of-light-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/points-of-light-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Points of Light in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>POEM 23<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh to join the waltz of fireflies dancing through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Rhythmic points of green fire, what a joyous sight.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands flicker endlessly in bioluminescent flight.<\/p>\n<p>They blink and glide, setting a forest aglow.<\/p>\n<p>So many little strobe lamps you know, flitting in the dark of the woods giving a giant light show.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning bugs froze in a camera&#8217;s quick snap of bright, are suddenly green baubles like strings of lime colored lights.<\/p>\n<p>Ah but I much prefer them naturally&#8211;blinking&#8211;flashing&#8211;firing as they might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 23 Oh to join the waltz of fireflies dancing through the night. Rhythmic points of green fire, what a joyous sight. Thousands flicker endlessly in bioluminescent flight. They blink and glide, setting a forest aglow. So many little strobe lamps you know, flitting in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102219"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104438,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102219\/revisions\/104438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}